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Topic: Maritime CW. (Read 4901 times)

Well, almost... The boat is at the dock, but tonight I will be listening on 7030 between 7pm and 11pm EST. I brought my K1 and an end-fed tuner: http://www.earchi.org/92011endfedfiles/Endfed6_40.pdf connected to the insulated backstay. The K1 ATU tunes 40,30,20 and 15m with the tuner without batting an eye.

I am happy to report that the EARCHI tuner works really well, though it does need a regular tuner to work. No problem with the K1 ATU of course, which can tune a 25' coax connected to nothing.. Don't ask me how I know I will mount it permanently to be used with the insulated backstay.

I had a nice chat with a guy named Mac. It isn't very often that one finds a Ham willing to ragchew. Everybody else was just a quickie, which for me always feels like a waste of time..